220 Rhodora [Seftbubbb 



Equuetum hyemale, var. intermedium is known from Hartford, Suf- 

 ficld, Oxford and Norfolk in Connecticut and Pownal and Burling- 

 ton, Vt. 



XI. Miscellaneous. 



Botrychium virginianum, Lycopodium lucidulum, 



var. intermedium var. porophilum 



Selaginella mpestris 



Selaginella rupestrit, the most widely distributed of these plants 

 in New England, has a puzzling range It is a species of dry ledges, 

 of Alleghanian range outside of New England. With us, it has two 

 stations in extreme northern Maine; but it is almost entirely absent 

 from the White Mt. region, occurring only on the extreme fringes of 

 the mountains at Moultonboro and Berlin, and apparently from 

 northeastern Vermont. In Maine, its stations, except for the two 

 mentioned, are all either near the coast or in the valleys of the An- 

 droscoggin and Penobscot Rivers. It is fairly general southward, 

 except on Cape Cod where it is not known — a circumstance readily 

 accounted for by the absence of rock outcrops there. Recent taxo- 

 nomic study of the group to which S. mpestris belongs has segregated 

 a number of southern and western species formerly referred to it. 

 The northeastern members of the group have not yet been critically 

 studied; possibly we have to reckon with more than one species here. 



Botrychium virginianum, var. intermedium is known from four 

 stations, one each in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecti- 

 cut. More data in regard to it are needed. Similarly the New 

 England stations for Lycopodium lucidulum, var. porophilum (north- 

 ern Maine and Clarendon, Vt.) are too few to give any sure indica- 

 tion of the group to which it belongs. 



C. II. Knowlton 

 W. S. Ripley, -Ik. 

 C. A. Weatherbt 



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